In message of
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:53:10 in uk.transport.london, Martin Underwood
writes
Walter Briscoe wrote in
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In message of
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:50:18 in uk.transport.london, Martin Underwood
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first. But suppose he's a second or so later and is just behind me.
Should I delay setting off to let him overtake me or should he wait
until I've turned? I reckon the latter.

I reckon the former. You are turning across his path. He has right of
way. A similar thing would apply if you turn across the path of a bus
in a bus lane.

Even if I'm indicating that I'm turning. I thought it was an offence to
overtake a vehicle that's indicating, on the same side as he's indicating.

I think a cycle in a cycle lane has right of way and usual rules about
streams of traffic do not apply.


It all boils down to the absurdity of a road layout where the left-turning
traffic is not in the left-most lane.

I think you have to wait before you change lane.



The one that always gets me is the fact that pedestrians have priority over
vehicles that are turning into or out of a side road. Why should
pedestrians, who normally have to stop at the kerb to wait for a gap in the
traffic (except at zebra crossings and pedstraisn lights, obviously) be
given precedence over vehicles at the most dangerous part of a road, namely
a junction with another road?

ISTR, driving test says pedestrians always have right of way.
In practice, might usually rules unless there is a shunt.
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Walter Briscoe